Career Assessments

The key to choosing an appropriate career direction is to identify some critical information
about yourself, how that information relates to various careers, and how well those
various careers will meet your individual needs.

Questions you may be asking yourself include:

What interests me?

What do I value?

What am I good at doing?

How do my personal characteristics and interests relate to career choices?

Exploring these questions through assessment tools will help you discover more about
yourself and guide you to careers most appropriate for you. A little time spent now
to increase your knowledge about yourself and the world of work can save you considerable
time, money and effort in the long run.

The following assessment tools are offered by our office. We recommend that you use
more than one career assessment tool and strongly encourage you to seek assistance
in interpreting and discussing the results.

Learn more about yourself through the occupations sorter (Occ-u-Sort), skills inventory
(Micro Skills Inventory), and a brief personality inventory (True Colors). Through
utilization of your assessment results, Eureka will suggest potential careers for
you. You can save all results on your profile and log-in whenever you want. The system
also features in-depth information about specific occupations, graduate programs,
scholarships/grants, financial aid, international careers, and more. Over 4,000 colleges
& universities are represented.

*Fresno State students can contact Career Development Center for the Eureka Site
ID code.

CareerLeader– College (CL–C)

CareerLeader–College (CL-C) is a comprehensive business career inventory that identifies
one’s interests, abilities, potential weaknesses and motivators within the work environment.
CL-C compares your results to over 30 business careers and gives insight into your
ideal career path.

*In order to access the CL-C assessment tool online, contact Career Development Center
at 559.278.2381 to inquire about registration.

The Keirsey Temperament Sorter is a personality instrument that helps you discover
your personality type and how you relate to others in your work environment. This
insight is useful when selecting a career or choosing a work environment that meets
your needs.

Interest Profiler

The Interest Profiler follows the theory of Dr. John Holland, whose model is the basis
for many of the career inventories used today. Holland's theory states that most people
can be loosely classified into six different groups: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic,
Social, Enterprising, and Conventional. Occupations and work environments can also
be classified by the same categories; therefore, you can select appropriate careers
that best match your types.